by R.R. Bukrey Physics Department Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois We are pleased to report that a classic atomic-scale physics experiment -- the double-slit experiment -- has now been carried out on a macroscopic scale. We have demonstrated the wave/particle duality of a familiar, "everyday scale" phenomenon -- the stream of cars passing through the exit lanes of the Loyola University of Chicago parking garage. Figure 1. The twin exit lanes of the parking garage. Background: The Wave-Particle Dualit...

I know it’s not exactly a meme, mods. So I hope this is okay. I forgot all about this until it got brought up in conversation today. Still my favourite thing the Annals of Improbable Research (the people behind the Ig Nobel Prizes) ever did.

  • subtext@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    We all of us owe an enormous debt of gratitude to the sign painter; however, as he did not grant us co-authorship on his sign, we feel it would be presumptuous to give him co-authorship on our paper.

    Big L for the sign painter